In my spiritual studies about five years ago with a Chabad Rabbi which centered on prophecies which must be fulfilled prior to the coming of Moshiach, focus was directed at prophecies of the imminent war between Persia and the West.
I was informed that the prophecy stating the war would take place was written with ambiguous syntax, thus leaving both combatants qualified to emerge as winner.
The winner is not prophecied.
While "logic" would dictate that Persia be crushed for all of its evil threats and modern day Haman, my Rabbi explained that several Rabbinic Sages had declared that Iran/Persia actually had acquired more Heavenly merit with Ha'Shem than did the U.S.A.
I couldn't understand such a thing at first, but then I read the quotes, which based their reasoning on the fact that The First Temple had been ordered rebuilt in Jerusalem by the Persian King at the end of the Captivity, whereas the West today has done nothing but condemn Israel's sovereign claims to Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, Golan, and Sinai, and thus prevents The Third Temple from rising.
The Sages didn't state unequivocally that Persia would defeat the U.S. in the coming war, only that Persia's accumulated merit gives her 'the edge' over a West which demands half of Jerusalem be given to bloodthirsty murderers.
So ... Who who's going to win? ...
The rebuilder of the Jerusalem Temple?
-or -
The nation which rejects Ha'Shem's Plan for The Final Redemption?